Green happy to take textbook approach

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TAKING THEIR PLACES IN AN England squad whose members are as likely to have a book written about them as they are to read one, there is more to bond Robert Green and David James than the unofficial brotherhood of goalkeepers. The pair of understudies to Paul Robinson, who face each other from opposite ends of the City of Manchester Stadium this evening, when James and Manchester City host Green’s Norwich City, represent a thinking wing of the national team.

Pop psychologists point to an excess of thought and analysis as one root cause for the mistakes that might end